Miracle

"What's going on!"

Thunder rumbled across the sky as howling winds suddenly rose. Thick clouds blotted out the sun, and the Kikyo Mountain area at the center of all these changes was plunged into darkness. Only faint flashes of lightning flickered through it. Such a change on the scale of a natural disaster left many of the ninja feeling uneasy.

"Bring the rain!!!"

Accompanied by a cry that sounded like a prayer to heaven, the thunder in the sky grew even more violent. Then, a constant pattering rang out as raindrops the size of soybeans hammered the ground. The dust that had been flying moments ago quickly vanished, leaving only the drizzling rain and water splashing against their faces.

"It's raining!!!"

"This is a miracle!"

"A miracle!!!"

Countless Sunagakure Shinobi leaped for joy in the rain, while Rasa and the many other ninja sank into deep confusion. At that moment, it was not only their expressions that changed—the gazes of every ninja toward Susanoo had changed as well.

Simple slaughter and overwhelming strength were nothing extraordinary. But an existence powerful enough to alter the weather so completely was impossible not to take seriously.

This rainfall, which swept across nearly half the territory of the Land of Wind, had a tremendous impact. Especially after the cause and consequences became known, the entire Shinobi World was thrown into an uproar. Since the beginning of recorded history, no one had ever produced such a large-scale ninjutsu phenomenon.

Of course, that was because they did not take the deeds of certain monstrous, mythical figures seriously. Take Hashirama Senju, for example. His afforestation was no joke—one Advent of a World of Trees could truly create an entire forest, a permanent forestation project.

This rainfall across hundreds of miles of territory was the result of